Famous quotes containing the word creatures:
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fearnot absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea!incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“O curse of marriage,
That we can call these delicate creatures ours
And not their appetites!”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Unignorant,
modest and unemotional, and all emotion,
he has everlasting vigor,
power to grow,
though there are few creatures who can make one
breathe faster and make one erecter.”
—Marianne Moore (18871972)
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